Stuart Borlase
Year: 2014
File Size: 42 Mb - 607 Pages - 23 Color & 253 B/W Illustrations

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Features

Features diverse perspectives from more than 80 experts and leaders in their fields
Discusses smart grid drivers, benefits, challenges, and success factors
Describes the smart grid technology framework and the wide range of technologies that will enable the smart grid
Presents an overview of smart grid efforts in the United States and around the world
Examines the future outlook for smart grid
Includes more than 250 illustrations and a 12-page color insert

Summary

What exactly is smart grid? Why is it receiving so much attention? What are utilities, vendors, and regulators doing about it? Answering these questions and more, Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions gives readers a clearer understanding of the drivers and infrastructure of one of the most talked-about topics in the electric utility market—smart grid. This book brings together the knowledge and views of a vast array of experts and leaders in their respective fields.

Key Features

Describes the impetus for change in the electric utility industry
Discusses the business drivers, benefits, and market outlook of the smart grid initiative
Examines the technical framework of enabling technologies and smart solutions
Identifies the role of technology developments and coordinated standards in smart grid, including various initiatives and organizations helping to drive the smart grid effort
Presents both current technologies and forward-looking ideas on new technologies
Discusses barriers and critical factors for a successful smart grid from a utility, regulatory, and consumer perspective
Summarizes recent smart grid initiatives around the world
Discusses the outlook of the drivers and technologies for the next-generation smart grid

Smart grid is defined not in terms of what it is, but what it achieves and the benefits it brings to the utility, consumer, society, and environment. Exploring the current situation and future challenges, the book provides a global perspective on how the smart grid integrates twenty-first-century technology with the twentieth-century power grid.